Amritsar, December 10

Two-day annual seminar on Teacher Education for Sustainability and Food and Nutritional Securities: Challenges for Sustainability began here on Friday. Being organsied by the Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies its Director General Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth while welcoming the delegates said climate and sustainability concerns were growing ever more important to today’s world.

The movement toward a net-zero emissions economy is a global imperative. Climate change affects everything from geopolitics to economies to migration. Because it touches everything so the seminar seeks to examine it from every angle. When Covid-19 began to tear through countries, politicians and business leaders largely followed the advice of experts and accepted swift government action to flatten the curve of infections. — TNS